Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confessional Reformed Anglicanism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the five points of Calvinism. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal constitute the Anglican Formularies, the doctrinal standards of Anglicanism. The Lambeth Articles 1595 and Irish Articles 1615 are Reformed confessions. Isa 1:18,Rom 12:1, 2

About Me

In God's providence my doctrine has changed from Pentecostal Arminianism to Calvinism and Reformed Anglicanism. My Reformed standards are the Anglican Formularies (39 Articles of Religion, 1662 BCP, the Homilies), with the Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity. Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, 1995, M.Div. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 1991, B.A., Cum Laude. [Nota Bene: All e-mails to me are considered in the public domain. I reserve the right to post them on the blog. Anonymous comments may or may not be posted at the discretion of the blog owner.]
Anglo-Catholicism and Arminianism are heresies.
I view Amyraldianism as a departure from Reformed theology and I disagree with the three points of common grace and the "gracious offer". I do post or link to sites that disagree with my views at times and having those sites on my blog does not constitute an endorsement of everything said on those sites. I generally endorse the presuppositional apologetics of Gordon H. Clark.
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Martyred for the Gospel

The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Collect of the Day

O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Daily Bible Verse

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The
Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, often mention faith in
Christ and say that whoever believes in him is saved, does not perish,
is not judged, has eternal life, and so on (see John 3:16 and 5:24).
Saying that people who believe in him are condemned because they have
faith without works is to pervert everything, making Christ a destroyer
and a murderer, and Moses a saviour. I admit that our adversaries do not
use these exact words, but this is in fact what they teach. They say
that faith in Christ does not make us free from sin, but only faith
combined with love. This is to say that Christ leaves us in our sins and
in the wrath of God and makes us guilty of eternal death, whereas if
you keep the law, faith justifies you because it has works, without
which faith is no help. Therefore, works justify, and not faith, they
claim. What pernicious and cursed teaching this is!

Paul bases his
argument on an impossibility. If we are justified in Christ and yet are
still sinners and can be justified only by some means other than
Christ—namely, by the law—then Christ cannot justify us but only accuses
and condemns us. And it then follows that Christ died in vain, and this
passage and others (such as John 1:29 and 3:16) are not true. The whole
Scripture is then false when it tells us that Christ is the justifier
and Saviour of the world. If we are still sinners after we have been
justified by Christ, it follows that those who fulfill the law are
justified without Christ. If this is true, then we are heretics,
professing the name and Word of God outwardly but in reality denying
Christ and his Word. It is therefore great impiety to say that faith
does not justify unless it is combined with works of love. If faith and
works together justify us, then Paul’s words are not true when he says
we are justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law (verse
16).